Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia
quote:
Originally posted by Lilith Fifth Gear isn't a bad car show.
Yeah its not bad. Tiff Needall is an all time champ
actually one of the things I love most about Top Gear is that it is just beautifully photographed.
They really put the effort into making their segments look and sound really really damn good.
Talking about car shows, has anyone seen "Test Drive" and also "The Car Show", fuck why can't Australian's make car shows? they're so bloody bad, they absolutely approach every car with the mindset "Can't say anything bad or else they won't give us a car again", so as a result every single review is that the car is great, brilliant, perfect, when in fact they are shit.
Even our car mags are no good, every month I have to buy UK mags
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Aug-29-2007 13:07
Lilith
Meowsies!
Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Maximum Security twilight home for cats
I'd imagine there's a fair whack of budget for Top Gear to be as nicely produced as humanly possible, something like one or two billion people watch it!
Sort of watched some of the local shows and they really are just dreadful things that are just, so horribly contrived it just makes you wince knowing the people doing them really don't have a clue and they try way too hard.
Don't really know about the car magazines, I guess they're a bit like the local car shows, way too much corporate pandering.
Aug-29-2007 13:29
Trance Nutter
........... I got nothing
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia
quote:
Originally posted by Lilith
I'd imagine there's a fair whack of budget for Top Gear to be as nicely produced as humanly possible, something like one or two billion people watch it!
Sort of watched some of the local shows and they really are just dreadful things that are just, so horribly contrived it just makes you wince knowing the people doing them really don't have a clue and they try way too hard.
Don't really know about the car magazines, I guess they're a bit like the local car shows, way too much corporate pandering.
The day I got back from Europe I was having lunch at home and one of these car shows came on tv, they were test driving some Ford and they had a "guest test driver". Who was Michael Clarke. Who is sponsored by Ford. Oh yeah, yeah impartial review right there.
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Aug-29-2007 13:42
Lilith
Meowsies!
Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Maximum Security twilight home for cats
Only thing worse than the car shows in Australia are the music shows which are all completely and utterly arse but I don't think they where ever really very good in the first place.
Aug-29-2007 13:53
gumble
doing the fat gut strut!
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Melbourne
what about jtv?
or alchemy or the old recovery? 10:30 slot? :P
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Aug-29-2007 14:04
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
listen to you plebs. ignoring the greatest television spectacle in favour of broom brooms
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Aug-30-2007 00:55
Lilith
Meowsies!
Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Maximum Security twilight home for cats
quote:
Originally posted by gumble
what about jtv?
or alchemy or the old recovery? 10:30 slot? :P
But that means getting up early on the weekends!
quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
listen to you plebs. ignoring the greatest television spectacle in favour of broom brooms
...and you get back to work, my taxes don't pay you to be sitting on your arse posting here!
Aug-30-2007 01:12
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by Lilith
...and you get back to work, my taxes don't pay you to be sitting on your arse posting here!
yes they do!
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Aug-30-2007 01:17
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
season 3 is being released on DVD on the 3rd September.
support the greatest show ever made!
who am i kidding. youre all plebs!
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Aug-31-2007 05:45
Fledz
Banned
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: London UK
Just watched the 1.5 hour special "Razor" that's set during Adamas time on the Pegasus as the Commander and apparently sets up alot of things for season 4. The central character adds a new dimension to the show and I quite liked her. Quite weird to hear an Aussie accent too.
SPOILER
It's a shame she dies though and it's interesting what that old guy (A god?) tell her about Kara Trace being the "Harbinger of Death". /SPOILER
Should be a good final season and looks like they have got back what they lacked in Season 3. Good storytelling that doesn't get bogged down in too much character development.
EDIT ... why is there no spoiler codes here, or an ability to somehow mask a spoiler?!?
